By implementing this project the INFUSSE consortium achieved the following goals: - Provided essential coaching and mentoring services to help aspiring digital young entrepreneurs navigate the after-pandemic reality. - Strongly supported the digital entrepreneurship education uptake in HEIs, through an innovative learning methodology based on competency-based logic and emphasizing authentic learning situations. - Deployed an innovative pedagogical methodology, designed to support both Educators and Learners to develop digital and entrepreneurial competencies. - Enhanced educators entrepreneurial thinking to enable their student entrepreneurial thinking by introducing them to entrepreneurship content. - The national and transnational INFUSSE Virtual Incubation Program enabled participants to collaborate, grow their co-creation spirit in seeking new digital business ideas and tackling joint challenges. - Created an inclusive educational HUB and provided a high-quality educational experience. The HUB is/was easily accessed from multiple target groups across EU. - Uptook the development of digital and entrepreneurial competences’ building, as well as sustainable partnerships at local, EU and international scale.
The COVID-19 pandemic created new business opportunities and transformed entrepreneurial activity in many countries. Digital entrepreneurship gained significant importance as it enabled the creation of new business ventures and digital start-ups. Also, the pandemic had devastating effects on educational institutions, students, and recent graduates. Universities cultivate promising and aspiring young entrepreneurs who set university entrepreneurship a high priority. Students and graduates are urged to develop their business ideas and are looking for educational resources and support via coaching, mentoring, and networking, offered by incubation programmes offered in HEIs, business schools, incubators and accelerators to support students’ and graduates’ employability. However, the pandemic underlined the need for the incubation programs to be transformed and to mitigate their structure to a virtual format. To answer these needs INFUSSE analyzed the local digital entrepreneurship ecosystem and developed a 100% Virtual Learning programme on “Digital Entrepreneurship”. A Digital Training and a “Virtual Incubation” Programme that provides a digital transformation plan for conventional learning and incubation programmes.